was re-elected with 59.61% of the vote, defeating Republican George H. Burch. 1878 — Tucker was re-elected with 63.42% of the vote, defeating Independent Democrat Camm Patterson and Independent Lewis W. Cabell. 1880 — Tucker was re-elected with 59.56% of the vote, defeating Readjuster James A. Frazier and Republican David J. Woodfin. 1882 — Tucker was re-elected with 54.95% of the vote, defeating Readjuster Henry J. Rives and Republican Woodfin. 1884 — Tucker was re-elected, but to Virginia's 10th congressional district Tucker made an unsuccessful but legally influential argument on behalf of August Spies and the other Haymarket Riot defendants during their appeal to the Supreme Court. Elected professor of Constitutional law at Washington and Lee University in 1888, Tucker was Dean of the School of Law from 1893 to 1897. Tucker served as president of The Virginia Bar Association in 1891–1892, and president of the American Bar Association in 1894. Death and legacy Tucker died in 1897 in Lexington, Virginia and is buried in the family plot at Mt. Hebron cemetery in Winchester. His widow died in 1916. Tucker's two volume treatise, The Constitution of the United States, appeared posthumously in 1899. One of his sons, Henry St. George Tucker, also became dean of the Washington and Lee Law School, and later a U.S. Congressman representing Winchester. His Lexington home, Blandome, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Works Race Progress in the United States, by J. R. Tucker, The North American review. / Volume 138, Issue 327 (February, 1884) pp. 163-178 The History of the Federal Convention of 1787, and of its work, by J. Randolph Tucker, New Englander and Yale review / Volume 47, Issue 209 (August, 1887) pp. 97-147. Virginia in the Supreme Court, by J. Randolph Tucker, The North American review / Volume 146, Issue 379 (June, 1888) pp. 674-681. Notes References External links 1823 births 1897 deaths Virginia Attorneys General People from Winchester, Virginia Presidents of the American Bar Association Politicians from Winchester, Virginia University of Virginia School of Law alumni John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) American people of English descent Washington and Lee University School of Law faculty Virginia lawyers People from Lexington, Virginia People of Virginia in the American Civil War Writers from Virginia American legal writers Legal historians Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia 19th-century American politicians American slave owners Burials at